Comment by jacquesm
6 months ago
It is not a fork from 95. Cfront, the original C++ compiler was a new front-end for the C compiler from 1983 that output C which was then compiled regularly.
6 months ago
It is not a fork from 95. Cfront, the original C++ compiler was a new front-end for the C compiler from 1983 that output C which was then compiled regularly.
Maybe, but it is 1995 when it diverged: https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/c Before it was an extension since then it is a fork.
I don't think we are using the word 'fork' in the same sense.
Maybe, but I do not see according to which definition of 'fork' C++ before its standardization in 1998 could be considered a fork. It was an extension.